Hi fellow Kauler disciple. R U sure the Toshiba laptop has no USB-HDD boot order menu in the BIOS (or UEFI) setup menu? The USB-HDD boot after the CD boot must B switched on. On my Gigabyte desktop it has2 B USB-HDD not USB-FDD or USB-ZIP for USB booting 2 work. After being able 2 boot via USB, update-grub or menu-config for GRUB2 would have2 B run with the USB stick mounted.

F12 is supposed to take me into BIOS setup (this machine predates UEFI) but it has always been a bit hit and miss. Now all I ever get is a load of Windows "safeboot" and recovery options. This never happened before I installed Fatdog, I suspect Windows 7 is jealous.

I pressed "c" to get to grub command line but when I tried "find /vmlinuz" it only found the one on the fatdog partition.

I can boot other Puppies and SLAX from CD with no problems, so F12 must have worked properly once because I set the BIOS up to boot from CD first.

GRUB does not have USB drivers. So at boot time, it doesn't know that (hd1,0) is a flash drive. It assumes that (hd1,0) is a second hard drive and fails. If you can't get your BIOS to boot off the flash drive, you could try an alternate bootloader like PLOP. But that might be risky with Win7 involved.

Quote:

kernel /vmlinuz
initrd /initrd

Look on your Slax CD for a file like isolinux.cfg. It will show you the files that Slax uses to boot.

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